Graham Perrin's List: tentenlooksbad

• egregious contrast issues
• visual damp, limp handshake.
• Background windows have more contrast (too much)
• I

  cons don't have enough edge contrast and bleed into their drop shadows
• halfwidth, centered text address bar in Safari
• Sigh.
• I was excited about it at first
• but yeah, needs a looot of refinement.
• looks like a novice back alley knock off
• something you'd see on a cardboard insert inside a plastic toy computer
• a lot of Apple UI lately looks amateurish
• I know this sounds offensive
• the iOS 7 design was the first *big* thing they missed the mark on
• Yosemite's fresh appearance yields visual consistency across the broadest possible range of devices, including knock-offs
• that's good enough for the new HIG.
• Apple can use it verbatim
• or substitute "knock-offs" with "vibranpreneurs"

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• want to customize
• ugly #Yosemite layout.
• which things are most ugly?
• the looks, the looks and the looks
• outgoing mailserver

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• After just a few days on iOS 7 I "got it", fell in love with the UI.
• Still looks like someone hit it with the ugly stick.
• Not so Yosemite.

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• Thoughts on Yosemite’s Look and Feel
• aims to be a much more elegant, more sophisticated, less elaborate visual presentation
• doesn’t achieve those goals
• lacking in polish
• full of awkward decisions and unresolved tensions
• Safari, in particular, seems to have trouble
• the idea that the same software on iOS and OS X should share a structurally similar user interface
• arrangement of interface elements is not all that symmetrical
• buttons seem improvised and lacking in care
• aesthetically, there seem to be few stylistic threads
• the only apparent commonality is randomness
• for iOS

  • for devices that are used in ways that differ hugely from how a Mac is used
• biggest complaint
• visual contrast
• Interface elements are often so light in color and/or so close to one another in color that they “bleed” into each other all the time.
• blown-out
• exposure
• novice photographer
• well beyond advisability
• mitigated
• none of my Macs qualify
• Apple designed Yosemite expressly to make

  • … expressly to make non-Retina Macs and non-Retina display in general look INFERIOR …
• I’m surprised.
• conspicuously un-Apple like
• hesitate to pronounce it a failure (or a success) s
• less than a week

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• hard to be sure what changed
• the type
• overwhelmingly ugly
• everywhere
• sizes & weights & spacing
• all off
• needs something
• thought it was just my eyes

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• through updating unless i'm forced

• one ugly OS. I'm really surprised.

        

               

• the UI of OS X 10.0-10.9 is beaten flat with an ugly stick
• interface design of OS X 10.10

• ugly black text on bright blur
• clumsy fat lettering
• reduced contrast
• harder to read
• 'optimised' clumsy fat lettering.
• I shouldn't target any group or individual
• some pervasive bullshit
• shameful

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• Yosemite is extremely ugly
• Wow Apple
• I am a transparency advocate

• yeah this was extremely Bad

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• beauty, clarity, and sharpness

  • This is debated.
    
    Some users find it less legible than Lucida Grande.
• The system font is a specially optimized version of Helvetica Neue
• The combined title bar and toolbar area

  • Bullshit. 
    
    What's pictured is not a title. 
• refines the impression of

  plausible, physical dimensionality

  • I would expect this style of wording in commercial advertising/marketing materials for age-defying lash-lengthening anti-wrinkle cosmetics.
• A translucent toolbar

  • allows unrelated window content to distract from what the user wishes to focus on. 
• vibrancy to defer to the user’s content

  • Oh, please …
• such as

  the Finder sidebar

  • is less legible in Yosemite than in Mavericks.

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